Art Institute of Chicago
Forest Landscape with Wild Animals
After Pieter Bruegel, the elderLinkedCulture matchlcp-5a61a43b62ae
- Date
- late 16th century
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 109142
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This drawing belongs to a group of some 20 similar sheets that record compositions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (most of which are now lost). Far from direct observation, they are inventions that use landscape motifs for imaginative purposes. Because of the relative novelty of landscape compositions as independent of narrative or devotional subjects, Bruegel’s landscape drawings provided new inspiration for the artists who had access to his works. As such, drawings made after his compositions not only attest to Bruegel’s influence in the rise of landscape as a distinct genre of artistic expression, they also record some of his compositions that would otherwise be unknown.
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- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Paul Sandby (1725–1809), London [blind stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower right]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon [inscription (Lugt 153), recto, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 26–27 1911, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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